Klaus (Paulskaya)*
Spelling Variations:
Klaus (Paulskaya)*
Клаусъ (Paulskaya)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Georg Klaus, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Margaretha (age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 22. They had settled there on 23 July 1767.
The 1767 census records that Georg Klaus came from the German village of Gettorf.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Klaus family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 336.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai